How to Use insulin in a Sentence

insulin

noun
  • Some insulin prices have more than tripled in the last two decades.
    Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Sanofi is the last of three major insulin makers in the United States to cut or cap the price of the drug.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • One of the forms, created by the school nurse, included the wrong insulin dosage.
    Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For some drugs, such as insulin, rebates and discounts can lower the list price by more than 80%.
    Mariana Socal, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • One of his aunts has Type 1 diabetes and is running out of insulin.
    Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The male's state affects insulin levels, which in turn affects the rack or the really big arm.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • First, over time, the body becomes less responsive to the hormone insulin.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 21 July 2023
  • The device serves the same purpose as shots, pumping insulin from a cartridge through a tube and into his body.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That prompted some drugmakers to slash the cost of insulin for a broader group of patients.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Mitchell keeps an insulin pump — about half the size of a cellphone — in his back left pocket during every game.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • When this happens, the body may not make as much insulin that is needed to store excess blood sugar.
    Michelle Pugle, Health, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Because the cells are resistant to insulin, glucose remains in the blood.
    Gary Gilles, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The idea is to compress your eating day into six or eight hours in order to reduce the amount of insulin your body produces.
    Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Biden has been crowing about his action to cap insulin prices for Medicare members at $35 a month.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Carr is a Type 1 diabetic who wears an insulin pump to help combat the disease.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • It has been shown to both decrease blood glucose levels and increase serum insulin.
    Serina Desalvio, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act capped the costs of insulin for seniors at $35 a month.
    al, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That's how much insulin is going to be for our seniors and actually for others as wel,l as the prices are rolling out.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Boop had to shut down her small legal practice because insulin for her daughter cost so much.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 24 July 2023
  • In addition, the law already caps out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients.
    Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Those are already limited to charging no more than $35 for a month’s supply of insulin.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • These declines happened prior to the Medicare insulin price ...
    Theo Merkel, National Review, 9 May 2023
  • But dealing with the insurance for Trevor’s insulin pump made the ordeal even more challenging.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Reality is whether or not someone is going to be able to get their insulin.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 25 June 2023
  • One dog, for instance, is diabetic and must eat and have insulin every 12 hours.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But the brain also needs many other molecules such as glucose and insulin, which can’t squeeze between the tight junctions.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • That same insulin was also causing some of her skin cells to proliferate.
    TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Newsom just announced that the state has landed a contract with a company to produce insulin.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This could increase insulin absorption and put you at risk of hypoglycemia.
    Barbie Cervoni, Rd, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Biden has often said in speeches that Medicare recipients will have the monthly cost of their insulin capped at $35.
    Josh Boak, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2023

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